offer, to be made by the Lord Lieutenant and his deputies. Thirdly. The pay to be fixpence a day for the days of exercife. Regular pay if embodied on invafion. Laftly. To exercife on Sundays, if not objected to as improper, and then repair to church. Some additional obfervations are fubjoined by Sir John Dalrymple.

ART. 40. The Cafe of the War Confidered, in a Letter to Henry Dun combe, Efq. Member of Parliament for the County of York. 8vo. 24 PP. IS. Debrett. 1794•

There is in this letter no appearance of intemperate party zeal, nor of ignoble acquiefcence in the opinions of any leader. But the counfel of the letter-writer will, perhaps, be deemed timid and indecifive, when he is found equally to have difapproved of "Mr. Fox's pa cific measures, and Mr. Pitt's rufhing into open war." The calamities of war every rational Chriftian muft deprecate, but it often happens that through them only we can arrive at the fecurity of peace.

vernment. vernment.

ART. 41. Eays on the following interefting Subjects, viz.—1. Ge2. Revolutions. 3. British Conftitution. 4. Kingly Go5. Parliamentary Reprefentation and Reform. 6. Liberty and Equality. 7. Taxation. 8. The prefent War, and the Stagnation of Credit as connected with it. By John Young, D. D. Minifter of the Gospel at Harwick. Printed at Glasgow, Sold by Vernor and Hood, London. 4th edition. 8vo. pp. 160. 25. 1794.

We have read with much pleafure the juft reafoning and folid ob fervations of this author, whofe effays have already claimed much deferved notice. He is a fincere friend to his country, to the established Government, and to practical Chriftianity. He very ably expofes prevailing errors which tend to fow fedition, and to excite discontent in those who impute the neceffary evils of life to the faults of the exifting Government. His conclufion is excellent, being a strong, rational, and fcriptural addrefs, enforcing order and peace; and expofing the evil and fin of fedition and rebellion. He very justly ftates, and well defends the grounds and reafon of the prefent war. It is but a proper and judicious tribute to the merit of this publication, that it has been adopted and circulated by fome loyal affociations in Scotland. It contains much that is likely to be useful under such a destination.

LAW.

ART. 42. A Collection of Cafes on the Annuity Act, with an Epitome of the Practice relative to the Enrolment of Memorials. By William Hunt, Efq. of Lincoln's Inn, Bárrifter at Law. 8vo. 45. Clarke. 1794.

This is a full and accurate collection of fuch cafes as have been reported relative to this ftatute. They are clearly arranged and

plainly

plainly ftated, fo as to give the reader a juft conception of the subject, as far as it has been elucidated by the decisions of courts of juftice. If this work had been defigned for the ufe of the legal profeffion alone, we fhould feel inclined to coincide with the objection which the author has anticipated in his preface; that the fubdivifions of the fubject are uselessly minute, and the feveral reported cafes too diffufely ftated. But as it alfo is defigned for the ufe of perfons who are not converfant in that fcience, it was neceffary to be minute in order to be intelligible, and the lawyer thould not object to a plan which though more tedious, is not the lefs ufeful to him, and is at the fame time highly beneficial to other readers.

ART. 43. The Modern Pleader; Containing the feveral Forms of Declarations in all Actions, with Notes thereon; Aljo a Collection of -choice and ufeful Precedents for Declarations in the fuperior Courts in the Action of Account and Common Affumpfit, with thofe on Promiffory Notes. To which are added a variety of ufeful Notes and Obferva tians; the feveral Cafes determined in thofe Actions, with the Evi dence neceffary to Support each Declaration; a Table of Names, 3c.: the whole made easy and useful to Students and to the Practifers in Town and Country; furnishing the latter with neceffary Inftructions for their Agents. By John Impey, Inner Temple; Author of the Inftructor Clericalis, c. 8vo. 75. Printed for the Author, fold by J. Butterworth. 1794.

This book may prove an ufeful affiftant to thofe claffes of the profeffion, for whom its long title page profeffes it to be defigned. From the perufal of the notes and obfervations, we cannot, however, compliment Mr. Impey either upon his talents for luminous arrangement, or upon a fcientific acquaintance with his fubject. We were forry to obferve that fome of the cafes ftated by him, are by no means accurate abstracts of the decifions, as given in the reports from whence they have been taken. Owing to miftakes of the prefs, feveral of the references to the printed reports are likewife erroneous,

ART. 44. The Lars Respecting Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers, laid down in a Plain, Ealy, and Familiar Manner, and free from the Technical Terms of the Law; with many Practical Directions concerning Leafs, &c. &c. Sc. Demand and Payment of Rent, Diftrefs, and Ejectment, as collected from the feveral Reports and other Books of Authority, up to the Commencement of the prefent Eafter Term, 1794. Containing alfo diftinct Treatifes of the various kinds of Eftates, particularly Eftates for Life, for Years, and Copyhold Eftates. Interfperfed with Notes and References for the Ufe of the Profeffion. With an Appendix of Precedents comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of Leafes, Alligaments, &c. Sc. c. To which are alfo alded Cautions and Directions relative to the Hiring and Letting of Hufes and Apartments, particularly in the Metropolis of London. Svo. 25. W. Clarke and Son. 1794.

That this pamphlet anfwers fully to the pompous catalogue of merits fet forth above, we can by no means affirm to the reader.

We

We do affure him, however, that it is much lefs of a catchpenny performance than from the title page he may be induced to imagine. It contains a good deal of information which may be useful to perfons who are not lawyers, plainly and intelligibly expreffed. Whether the learning that is to be gathered from familiar treatifes of this kind upon abftrufe fubjects, by perfons who are not in the habits of confidering them, is upon the whole more likely to keep them from the me hes of the attorney's net, or to lure them into it, is not within our province to determine.

ART. 45. The Sportsman's and Gamekeeper's Pocket Book; or, A Comprehenfive and Familiar Treatife on the Game Laws. Comprising, among ft other Matters, all the Statutes and Refolutions of the Courts relating to Hares, Rabbits, Groufe, Fish, and other Game. Together with fome general and particular Remarks, tending to explain their Import and facilitate their Conftruction. To which are added the Mode of Recovering Penalties under the Game Laws, the Law cen cerning Trespass in the Purfuit of the Game, and the General Law relating to Dogs. 1s. 6d. W. Clarke and Son. 1794.

To fuch fportfmen as are not in poffeffion of Burn's Juftice, this may prove an ufeful companion. The profeffional man must look for complete information upon the fubject elsewhere.

ART. 46. The Laws refpe&ting the Ordinary Practice of Impofitions in Money Lending, and the Buying and Selling of Public Offices. 8vo. 2s. 6d. W. Clarke and Son.

A well written treatife upon this fubject would be of confiderable ufe. With refpect to the prefent, the cafes are neither copioully nor judicioufly felected, and the difpofition of the materials, upon which much of the merit of a law book depends, is by no means remarkable for excellence.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 47. An Abridgement of Mr. Edwards's Civil and Commercial Hiftory of the British West Indies. In Two Volumes. 8vo.

Parfons. 1794•

125.

With the merits of Mr. Edward's Hiftory of the Weft Indies, it is probable that few of our readers are unacquainted. Our account of it, in our fecond volume, was very ample, and its celebrity has been fully adequate to the favourableness of our report. We confider the prefent abridgment as too dear to accommodate thofe who are very defirous to fave expence, and too inferior to the original work to bear any competition with it. The abridger reflects on the first publisher for the expenfive nature of his edition, but we confefs that we should beforry to fee important works iffued at firft in fuch a manner as not to claim their due place of refpect in good libraries. The reader need not be told that much of, the valuable matter of a great work may be comprifed in an abridgment: how far fuch a practice is fair, the pubJifhers must fettle among themfelves.

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ART. 48. A Letter to James White, Efq. of Exeter, on the late Carrefpondence between him and Mr. Toulmin, relative to the Society of Unitarian Chriftians, established in the West of England. By John Kentish. 8vo. pp. 58, 1s. 6d. Haydon, Plymouth, &c. Johnfon, London. 1794.

It appears from the preface, that Mr. Toulmin, who officiated one Sunday for Mr. Kenrick, at George's Meeting-House, Exeter, gave notice (by his defire) that on the next Wednesday a fermon would be preached there on occafion of the annual meeting of the Society of Unitarian Chriftians. Mr. White, and a majority of the Trustees, whofe permiffion had not been afked, were unanimously of opinion that the houfe fhould not be opened on the occafion. This letter is a vehement remonftrance against their refufal. We are at a lofs to conceive what right and claim one Society of any denomination can have to the ufe of the Meeting-houfe of another.

A defence of the doctrines, and of the public conduct of Unitarians, occupies the greater part of the book. On thefe fubjects, we find little matter in many words, abufe of the defenders of the Church, and encomiums on Dr. Priestley.

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

FRANCE.

ART. 49, La Médecine éclairée par les Sciences Phyfiques, on Journal des Découvertes relatives aux différentes Parties de l'Art de Guerir, par M. Fourcroy, Tom. I. II. 382 & 385, 40 pp. Tom. III. IV. 359 & 346, 39 pp. in 8vo. A Paris.

Under this title Mr. F. began in the year 1791 to publish a Journal, which has been continued to the prefent time, and which, on all accounts, deferves to be particularly noticed. The plan, as it is detailed in an introduction of 47 pages, includes every thing comprehended within the fphere both of Natural Philofophy and Medicine, which can be of ufe to the practical Phyfician, whofe avocations will not allow him to draw his information from the original fources themfelves. The author not only takes under confideration fixteen different fciences, the influence of which on the practice of Phytic he has fufficiently demonftrated, but he likewife engages to prefent his readers with brief accounts of the most recent publications in this department, of literature. It will not be queftioned that this undertaking is, if a proper felection be made, fufficiently important to enfure a permanent existence to a work of this kind, and though it would be unrea

fonable

fonable to expect that the author fhould really perform one half of what he has promifed, we do not fcruple to declare, that he has, in our opinion, done enough to raife the character of this Journal much above any other fimilar attempt with which we are acquainted. In each of these fixteen fciences we here meet with feveral valuable differtations and notices, fome of which are original, whilst others are chofen, with great judgment, from other periodical works, fuch as the Annales de Chimie, the London Medical Journal, the Fournal de Chirurgie by Default, &c. Two numbers of this ufeful publication appear monthly, each confifting of fo many fheets, which likewife conftitute the greater part of another excellent medical journal, in the German language, by Hufeland and Göttling, which we take this opportunity of pointing out to our readers.

ART. 50. Oeuvres Pofthumes d'Athanafe Auger, or, according to a fecond title, De la Conftitution des Romains, fous les Rois, & aux temps de la République, par Athanafe Auger. Tome cinquième de 387 pp. in 8vo. A Paris, 1793.

This volume contains nothing more than a verfion of the three Orations of Cicero pro M. Fontejo, pro A. Cluentio, & pro lege Manilia, in which the author has, in general, given a fufficiently exact reprefentation of his original, with, perhaps, as much of his fpirit and elegance, as was compatible with the difference of the two languages.

ART. 51. De la Structure, confidérée comme Caractère diftinctif des Mineraux, par M. Hauy. A Paris.

There is a fpecies of analyfis which appertains more immediately to mineralogy, and which, without carrying us fo far as the chemical analyfis, has, however, the advantage over it of prefenting us with conclufions ftill more precife, which may be faid to fpeak to the eyes, and are, in a multitude of circumftances, eafy to be formed. This analyfis is that which is founded on an examination of the structure of minerals. The author of the tract now before us has fhown how this inveftigation had led him to a theory which reduces the fimple cryf talline forms, originally belonging to one fubftance, to a fmall namber of plain and invariable laws, or rather to different modifications of one and the fame law. His intention is to point out the advantage that may be derived from obfervations made on their structure, towards facilitating the difcrimination of minerals. On which it is effential that we fhould remark, first of all, that the mechanical divifion, by means of which we are enabled to diftinguish the natural joints of the lamina of a mineral, is not confined to thofe bodies only which have a regular and determinate figure; it extends itfelf to many of thofe alfo which exhibit to the eye nothing but grofs, and apparently fhapeless maffes, but in which, notwithstanding, the pofition of the joints is ftill difcernible, wherever the moleculæ have had the liberty of arranging themfelves internally in a fymmetrical order, though that arrangement is

not